Ottawa’s currently under a freezing rain warning.� School buses are cancelled, so there’ll be a lot of parents who are either going to be late to work or stuck at home today.

The TAF (terminal area forecast)�for CYOW has 13 time periods on it, including the TEMPO and PROB sections, which makes it one of the longest ones I’ve seen:

TAF CYOW 091147Z 091212 07008KT P6SM OVC060
FM1300Z 08008KT 3SM -SN OVC015 TEMPO 1315 2SM -FZRA BR OVC008
FM1500Z 09010KT 2SM -FZRA BR OVC008 TEMPO 1516 3SM -SNRA OVC010
FM1600Z 11010KT 2SM -RA BR OVC008 PROB30 1619 1SM -FZRA BR OVC006
FM1900Z 13008KT 6SM -RA BR SCT004 OVC015 TEMPO 1903 2SM -RA BR BKN004 OVC015
BECMG 2123 16008KT
FM0300Z 16008KT 6SM -SHRA BR OVC015
FM0500Z 16008KT P6SM -SHRA OVC025
FM0800Z 18008KT P6SM OVC060
FM1000Z 18010KT 3SM -SHRA BR OVC010
RMK NXT FCST BY 15Z=

One of the rules of thumb I use when scanning TAFs is the longer they are, the less hospitible the weather is.� It doesn’t always work, but for a forecast like this one it does.� At least there’s no SG, PL or GR (to name a few) in it.

I really can’t wait for�summer to arrive.�